Article
Thermodynamics
Yuan Liu, Jiahui Chen, Lutao Zhao, Hua Liao
Summary: The photovoltaic poverty alleviation project (PPAP) in China, announced in 2014, has been found to have a positive impact on rural household clean energy transition, increasing the probability of transition by 3.4%. The project achieves this by raising rural household income and reducing migrant workers, thus improving local employment. Providing public welfare jobs and direct PV subsidies are identified as the most effective ways to promote clean energy transition for rural households.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yan Chen, Shuzhen Li, Tingting Zhou, Xiaoyan Lei, Xuyang Liu, Yahui Wang
Summary: This paper investigates the transformation of rural cooking energy in mountainous areas based on field investigation data from six villages in Chongqing. It reveals the significant transition in the consumption of rural household cooking energy, identifies the driving factors, and analyzes the carbon emission changes. The study also highlights the contribution of household cooking energy transition to carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, and proposes reform initiatives for rural energy in mountainous areas.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
Article
Economics
Lunyu Xie, Xian Hu, Xinyi Zhang, Xiao-Bing Zhang
Summary: In northern rural China, the transition from coal to electricity and gas for heating has led to an unintended increase in energy poverty, despite large subsidies. The increase in energy poverty is heterogeneous, with Beijing experiencing stability while the neighboring province of Hebei seeing a 70% increase. Lower income, less education, and smaller household size are factors that increase the likelihood of experiencing energy poverty.
Article
Business
Rufei Ma, Liqian Deng, Qiang Ji, Pengxiang Zhai
Summary: This paper examines the impact of environmental regulations on energy poverty in China. The study finds that stricter environmental regulations worsen energy poverty for households using non-clean energy, while access to reliable clean energy helps mitigate the adverse effects of these regulations on energy poverty.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Fubin Huang, Zihan Wang, Jing Liu, Chuanmin Shuai, Wenjing Li
Summary: This study investigates the impacts of poverty depth and capability deprivation on energy choice, finding that higher poverty depth leads to a higher probability of using solid energy. The research provides insights for policymakers in designing poverty eradication strategies and future studies.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Xinjie Shi, Liu Cui, Zuhui Huang, Pei Zeng, Tongwei Qiu, Linlin Fu, Qiang Jiang
Summary: This study investigated the impact of internal migration on household energy poverty in rural China. The results showed that internal migration significantly reduced the likelihood of energy poverty, especially for families in central and western regions and villages near counties. Migration also played a more important role for low-income households with less educated male heads.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Zhong Liu, Zuanjiu Zhou, Chang Liu
Summary: With a large rural population, China faces the challenge of energy poverty in rural areas. The study found that the Rural Centralized Residence policy can significantly reduce energy poverty in rural China by improving household income, promoting the use of energy-efficient materials, and enhancing energy infrastructure supply.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Guofeng Shen, Rui Xiong, Yanlin Tian, Zhihan Luo, Bahabaike Jiangtulu, Wenjun Meng, Wei Du, Jing Meng, Yuanchen Chen, Bing Xue, Bin Wang, Yonghong Duan, Jia Duo, Fenggui Fan, Lei Huang, Tianzhen Ju, Fenggui Liu, Shunxin Li, Xianli Liu, Yungui Li, Mu Wang, Ying Nan, Bo Pan, Yanfang Pan, Lizhi Wang, Eddy Zeng, Chao Zhan, Yilin Chen, Huizhong Shen, Hefa Cheng, Shu Tao
Summary: The household energy mix has significant impacts on human health and climate. A nationwide investigation in rural China revealed high contributions to energy supply from coal and biomass fuels, with the use of multiple energy sources being common. Compared to 2012, biomass and coal consumption decreased in 2017, while gas consumption significantly increased. The use of clean energy in rural areas is unevenly distributed and shows non-linear growth, posing challenges to achieving universal access to modern cooking energy by 2030.
NATIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Economics
Yi-Shuai Ren, Yong Jiang, Seema Narayan, Chao-Qun Ma, Xiao-Guang Yang
Summary: This paper examines the impact mechanism of marketization on rural energy poverty in China and finds that the effects are heterogeneous across provinces. There is an inverted U-shaped relationship between marketization and rural energy poverty, and the impact changes from promotion to suppression beyond a certain threshold level.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Boqiang Lin, Hengsong Zhao
Summary: This study examines the impact of off-farm work on energy poverty in rural China, finding that off-farm work helps improve households' energy poverty situation by increasing their total income. The research underscores the importance of implementing diversified policies to address energy poverty in rural areas.
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
(2021)
Article
Economics
Shu Wu, Hongyun Han
Summary: This study investigates the evolution of rural energy policies in China, finding that energy transition and intensity growth have different impacts on policy adoption. Various factors such as energy dependence, PM2.5 concentration, carbon intensity, income, rural energy technicians, and urbanization rate significantly influence rural energy policy evolution.
Article
Economics
Feifei Chen, Huanguang Qiu, Jun Zhang
Summary: This study examines the relationship between energy consumption and income of poor rural households in China and measures relative poverty based on household energy demand. The findings show that the energy demand of poor households increases with income after a certain threshold, and the relative poverty line for rural households in China is estimated at 5153.47 yuan per capita. The study suggests policies to promote energy transition and upgrade in rural China, as well as encourage rural households to switch from non-clean energy to clean energy.
Article
Economics
Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Russell Smyth
Summary: Energy poverty, a distinct form of poverty, has the potential to affect up to one billion people globally. This study finds that an increase in local area crime rates is associated with a higher likelihood of energy poverty, and identifies social capital, perceived safety, and physical activity as the channels through which crime influences energy poverty.
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Hongyun Han, Fan Si
Summary: This article examines the role of capital assets in rural household poverty transitions from 2014 to 2016 and 2016 to 2018. Using the sustainable livelihood approach, the paper employs a binary logit model to explore the influence of multidimensional capital assets on poverty transitions and uses instrumental variable estimation to address the endogeneity issue. The findings show that capital assets have significant impacts on household poverty transitions, with asymmetrical effects on poverty escape and poverty descent. The study verifies that rural households with richer total net assets are more likely to escape poverty and less likely to fall into poverty. The study also confirms a mediation effect where total net assets can help households escape poverty and prevent them from becoming poor by promoting engagement in business activities.
CHINA AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Jiandong Chen, Sishi Rong, Malin Song
Summary: This study highlights the current situation and influencing factors of rural poverty in China, focusing on the vulnerability in the western regions. It suggests that the government should balance economic development, promote the sharing of economic development achievements among rural poor populations, and narrow the income gap between urban and rural areas.
SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
Lu Cheng, Zhifu Mi, D'Maris Coffman, Jing Meng, Dining Liu, Dongfeng Chang
Summary: Bike sharing serves as a supplementary mode to enhance urban transport resilience during transit closures; proximity of bike sharing docks to metro stations affects propensity to use bike sharing programs; extreme weather poses a significant barrier to biking.
NETWORKS & SPATIAL ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Economics
Kehan He, Zhifu Mi, D'Maris Coffman, Dabo Guan
Summary: The input-output model is a powerful economic tool, but it suffers from a lengthy data preparation time, which hinders high-resolution time-series analysis. This study introduces an innovative algorithm that integrates linear regression techniques into the Sequential Interindustry Model to overcome the statistical lag issue in conventional IO studies.
STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DYNAMICS
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Tong Feng, Huibin Du, Zhifu Mi, Zhenni Chen, Nan Wang
Summary: Central environmental inspection in China has effectively improved air quality by reducing the concentrations of PM2.5, PM10, NO2, and SO2, with the strongest effects observed during the on-site inspection period. The environmental effectiveness was strengthened through public participation, administrative punishments, and positive rectification actions. The use of review inspection helped maintain the improvement in air quality, demonstrating that CEI is a normalized and effective governance strategy for tackling air pollution.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Lu Cheng, Zhifu Mi, Yi-Ming Wei, Shidong Wang, Klaus Hubacek
Summary: The self-reported life satisfaction of China's population has not improved as expected during the economic boom, possibly due to environmental pollution. This study finds a negative correlation between air pollution and subjective well-being, with a more significant decline in well-being during hot seasons. Additionally, residents in wealthier regions are more sensitive to air pollution.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Yiyi Cao, Shen Qu, Heran Zheng, Jing Meng, Zhifu Mi, Weiming Chen, Yi-Ming Wei
Summary: In order to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, China needs to make significant changes to its socioeconomic systems and allocate emissions responsibility appropriately. Traditional methods of responsibility delineation can lead to double counting, so an alternative method based on economic welfare gains from environmental externalities has been refined. This approach ensures that the responsibilities of consumers and producers add up to the total emissions. Applying this method to 48 countries and 31 Chinese provinces reveals variations in responsibilities, indicating potential for more comprehensive and accessible policy goals.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Kehan He, Zhifu Mi, Jin Zhang, Jinkai Li, D'Maris Coffman
Summary: China's domestic CO2 emissions are unevenly distributed, with increasing emissions from the less developed northwest region to the rest of China. This trend is attributed to industrial upgrading and disparity in regional development. Additionally, CO2 emissions exported from China to the rest of the world have decreased, with other developing countries filling the gap. Policy makers need to be alerted to prevent further pollution migration.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Tong Feng, Xinyu Chen, Jie Ma, Yuechi Sun, Huibin Du, Ye Yao, Zhenni Chen, Shidong Wang, Zhifu Mi
Summary: Production restriction is an environmental regulation in China aimed at reducing air pollution from industrial enterprises. However, these restrictions can result in economic losses and hinder the green transformation of companies. Polluting enterprises are faced with the dilemma of choosing between environmental protection and economic development.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jing Meng, Jingwen Huo, Zengkai Zhang, Yu Liu, Zhifu Mi, Dabo Guan, Kuishuang Feng
Summary: International trade redistributes production activities, affecting CO2 emissions by moving them to places with different emission intensities. This study focuses on the convergence of emission intensities between exporters and importers, finding that the relocation of production activities from developed to developing countries increased global emissions in the early 2000s. However, the narrowing emission intensities and changing trade patterns have led to declining net emissions in trade in the past decade.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ling Tang, Min Jia, Junai Yang, Ling Li, Xin Bo, Zhifu Mi
Summary: China, as the world's largest industrial producer, faces significant industrial atmospheric pollution, especially from particulate matter, SO2, and NOx emissions. In order to better understand industrial emission characteristics, a nationwide and up-to-date air pollutant emission inventory named Chinese Industrial Emissions Database (CIED) has been created, utilizing real smokestack concentrations from China's continuous emission monitoring systems (CEMS) during 2015-2018. The use of this CEMS data allows for direct estimation of industrial emission factors and absolute emissions, increasing estimation accuracy and reliability.
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Xin Tian, Yiling Xiong, Zhifu Mi, Qianzhi Zhang, Kailan Tian, Bin Zhao, Zhaoxin Dong, Shuxiao Wang, Dian Ding, Jia Xing, Yun Zhu, Shicheng Long, Pingdan Zhang
Summary: Different roles in the value chain lead to significant mismatches between social welfare gains and health damage. Atmospheric transport partially reduces these mismatches but increases health damage in densely populated and lower polluted regions. The fairness of social welfare allocation along the value chain, considering the environmental and health effects, is underinvestigated.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Energy & Fuels
Tong Wu, Jin-Wei Wang, Shen Qu, Zhifu Mi, Yi-Ming Wei
Summary: Energy storage technologies (ESTs) are crucial for ensuring energy security and addressing climate change challenges. This study employs a data-driven approach to identify the research frontiers in ESTs using bibliographic coupling and sliding window analysis. It reveals 19 research frontiers distributed across four knowledge domains and highlights aqueous zinc batteries and two-dimensional transition metal carbon-nitride composites as noteworthy areas. This study provides insights for future research and development (R&D) deployment in energy storage technologies.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENERGY RESEARCH
(2023)
Review
Economics
Jun-Jie Chang, Zhifu Mi, Yi-Ming Wei
Summary: The climate econometric analysis is increasingly used to evaluate climate risks and understand economic impacts caused by climate change. This article reviews the literature on growth and level effects, temperature variables' forms and functional forms, and the model specification. An approach for combining empirical findings with climate change integrated assessment models (IAMs) to improve damage modeling is also introduced. The findings show that damage estimates through growth effects are generally larger than those through level effects. Changing the time resolution of temperature variables, introducing non-linearity into econometrics functions, and specifying temperature deviation can reveal diverse impact mechanisms and adaptation effects. Combining cross-sectional and panel models enables the examination of economic impacts at different future times.
STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DYNAMICS
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Xinlu Sun, Zhifu Mi
Summary: The outbreak of COVID-19 has had profound impacts on carbon emissions in China, particularly through structural changes in the determinants of carbon emissions. The study reveals that per capita final demand has contributed to slower emissions growth, while production structure has driven a greater increase in carbon emissions. Export-led emissions growth has rebounded, and investment-led emissions have become more concentrated in the construction sector. The carbon intensity of several heavy industries has increased, indicating a deterioration in production structure. Policymakers should focus on increasing investment in low-carbon industries and shifting towards consumption-led growth for a green recovery from the pandemic.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Xinlu Sun, Zhifu Mi, Andrew Sudmant, D'Maris Coffman, Pu Yang, Richard Wood
Summary: Cities play a crucial role in the fight against climate change, but a lack of cost- and time-effective methods to calculate carbon footprints hinders intercity comparisons and responsibility allocations. In this study, a hybrid method combining top-down input-output analysis and bottom-up crowdsourced data was established to estimate the carbon footprints of 465 global cities in 2020. The results show a significant concentration of carbon emissions in a small number of cities, highlighting the importance of leadership from globally important urban centers.
ADVANCES IN APPLIED ENERGY
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Ling Tang, Jianhui Ruan, Xin Bo, Zhifu Mi, Shouyang Wang, Guangxia Dong, Steven J. Davis
Summary: This study analyzes the impacts of emission regulations in China's cement industry and finds that while the regulations have led to reductions in particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide, they have also resulted in an increase in carbon dioxide emissions. Interestingly, some plants have already reached the ultra-low air pollution standards set for 2020. Further analysis suggests that if small and old plants are phased out and all remaining plants adopt advanced equipment and improve fuel and energy efficiency, there is potential for even greater reductions in air pollutants and carbon dioxide emissions.
Article
Economics
Marie-Louise Arlt, David Chassin, Claudio Rivetta, James Sweeney
Summary: This paper examines the impact of real-time pricing and load automation on residential distribution systems. The study finds that implementing real-time pricing can result in an aggregate welfare gain of 39 USD per customer and year. However, it also notes that RTP and load automation may significantly increase peak system load. Introducing a market-based demand management system can further enhance welfare gains and reduce grid investment.
Article
Economics
Javier Jorquera-Copier, Alvaro Lorca, Enzo Sauma, Stefan Lorenczik, Matias Negrete-Pincetic
Summary: As countries update their climate ambitions, low-carbon hydrogen production and use present opportunities for emissions reductions and economic development. A case study for Chile shows that integrating hydrogen and electricity networks can lower system costs and enhance renewable integration, but policy support is needed to address concerns related to water and land use.
Article
Economics
Dawit Guta, Hisham Zerriffi, Jill Baumgartner, Abhishek Jain, Sunil Mani, Darby Jack, Ellison Carter, Guofeng Shen, Jennifer Orgill-Meyer, Joshua Rosenthal, Katherine Dickinson, Rob Bailis, Yuta Masuda
Summary: Household solid fuel use is detrimental to health and the environment. The Indian government's PMUY subsidy has successfully promoted the adoption of LPG by millions of households. However, there is limited understanding of the decision-making process to reduce solid fuel use after transitioning to cleaner fuels. This study found that factors such as household wealth, social status, education level, and the prevalence of LPG use in the village are positively associated with LPG consumption and the discontinuation of solid fuel use. On the other hand, factors such as distance to LPG refill delivery, household size, and the PMUY subsidy are negatively associated with the share of LPG use.
Article
Economics
Nicolas Morell-Dameto, Jose Pablo Chaves-Avila, Tomas Gomez San Roman, Pablo Duenas-Martinez, Tim Schittekatte
Summary: This paper assesses the performance of differently implemented forward-looking network tariff designs and proposes an innovative coordination mechanism to increase predictability in a future with many flexible customers. The study reveals that if large shares of customers synchronize their responses to highly time-varying and locational-specific network charges, it can lead to unexpected reinforcements.
Article
Economics
Alexandra Gritz, Guntram Wolff
Summary: Russia's weaponization of gas supplies shook the energy security of Central and Eastern Europe in 2022. The region responded by increasing alternative energy supplies and developing new gas supply routes. Renewable energy, nuclear energy, and hydrogen play important roles in the long-term. Mitigating the impact of this shock requires the EU to prioritize the integrity of its energy market.
Article
Economics
Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, Marion Collewet, Matthew DiGiuseppe, Hendrik Vrijburg
Summary: Economic costs are a major political obstacle to investing in climate change mitigation and adaptation measures. The method of financing plays a crucial role in determining public opposition to government green investments, with debt financing being less opposed than broad-based taxes. This study suggests that credit market tools, such as green bonds and debt for climate swaps, can be politically efficient in increasing support for green financing. Carbon taxes and wealth taxes are found to be the most preferred options.
Article
Economics
Kun Guo, Liyuan Luan, Xiaoli Cai, Dayong Zhang, Qiang Ji
Summary: This paper investigates China's energy trade stability using a survival analysis approach. It finds that the energy trade linkages between China and 153 other countries are complex and unstable, with short periods of trade with many countries. Geopolitically risky regions, such as the Middle East and Africa, have the lowest trade stability. Climate risks have significant effects on energy trade stability. The paper proposes several policy options to improve energy trade stability in China, with special attention to increasing global climate risks.
Article
Economics
Simona Bigerna, Piyush Choudhary, Nikunj Kumar Jain, Silvia Micheli, Paolo Polinori
Summary: This study estimates the willingness to pay of Indian urban consumers for a continuous supply of electricity using contingent valuation method. The findings show that the amount consumers are willing to pay depends on the duration of power outages, with households preferring shorter outages. Income and environmental attitude also positively influence higher willingness to pay. These insights can inform policymakers in designing more reliable and customer-centric energy generation and distribution models.
Article
Economics
Temilade Sesan, Unico Uduka, Lucy Baker, Okechukwu Ugwu, Ewah Eleri, Subhes Bhattacharyya
Summary: This study examines the impact of the regulatory framework on rural electrification and universal energy access goals in Nigeria's mini-grid sector. The findings suggest that while the current framework has fostered sector growth, additional measures are necessary to ensure equitable distribution of access among rural populations.
Article
Economics
Rui Shan, Noah Kittner
Summary: Energy storage is a cornerstone in decarbonization planning as it reduces operational costs and greenhouse gas emissions, while enhancing resilience and renewables integration. However, storage developers in different regions have varying economic and environmental considerations, thereby requiring policy intervention to achieve long-term emission reductions.
Article
Economics
Tung Durmaz, Sevil Acar, Simay Kizilkaya
Summary: This study investigates the phenomenon of strategic capacity withholding in the Turkish electricity market and its relationship with the capacity remuneration mechanism. The empirical results provide strong evidence of strategic capacity withholding and show that the capacity mechanism contributes to the duration of failures. The study offers important insights for policymakers, including the implementation of a random verification mechanism and restructuring of the capacity mechanism in Turkey.
Article
Economics
Tii N. Nchofoung
Summary: The study finds that oil price shocks have a negative impact on Africa's energy transition, particularly in rural areas and net crude oil exporting countries. However, oil price shocks cannot explain the urban-rural differences in clean energy access. Therefore, increasing investment in clean energy and technologies in rural areas is necessary to enhance the resilience of the energy sector to oil price shocks.
Article
Economics
Najia Saqib, Muhammad Usman, Ilhan Ozturk, Arshian Sharif
Summary: This study examines the impact of environmental technologies, financial growth, and energy use on ecological footprint and green growth. Environmental innovation and renewable energy deployment contribute to green growth, while financial expansion and non-renewable energy use have negative effects on the environment. The study also identifies causal relationships between different factors.
Article
Economics
Yessica C. Y. Chung, Noxolo Kunene, Hung-Hao Chang
Summary: The Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) is considered an innovative technology for building a green society. This study investigates the impact of REC purchases on stock return and volume in Taiwan between 2017 and 2021. The findings suggest that REC purchases have a positive effect on stock returns of manufacturing firms but not service firms. The frequency of REC purchases is also an important factor in the relationship between REC purchase and firm value. Additionally, the study reveals that public attention to environmental pollution plays a crucial role in positive stock returns and volume, while ESG disclosure is negatively associated with returns and volume.
Article
Economics
Seife Ayele, Wei Shen, Yacob Mulugetta, Tadesse Kuma Worako
Summary: This paper addresses the challenges of governing energy procurement from a mix of non-hydropower renewable energy sources supplied by independent producers. Building on political economy analysis and five case studies of independent producer projects from Ethiopia, it seeks to understand the root causes of the protracted delays and limited extent of procurement by independent producers. The key contestations lie in managing long term contracts, risk, uncertainty and in developing the institutional and human capacity to transition.